Crossword clues for thirteenth
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thirteenth \Thir"teenth`\ (th[~e]r"t[=e]nth`), a. [From Thirteen: cf. AS. [thorn]re['o]te['o][eth]a.]
Next in order after the twelfth; the third after the tenth; -- the ordinal of thirteen; as, the thirteenth day of the month.
Constituting or being one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
Thirteenth \Thir"teenth`\, n.
The quotient of a unit divided by thirteen; one of thirteen equal parts into which anything is divided.
The next in order after the twelfth.
(Mus.) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
15c. metathesis of þriteenþe (mid-14c.; see thirteen + -th (1)), which replaced forms from Old English þreoteoða (West Saxon), þriteogeða (Anglian). Similar formation in Old Norse þrettande, Danish trettende, Swedish trettonde, Old Frisian threttinde, Dutch dertiende, Old High German dritto-zehanto, German dreizehnte.
Wiktionary
a. The ordinal form of the number thirteen. n. 1 The person or thing in the thirteenth position. 2 One of thirteen equal parts of a whole. 3 (context music English) The interval comprising an octave and a sixth.
WordNet
adj. coming next after the twelfth in position [syn: 13th]
n. position 13 in a countable series of things
Wikipedia
In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the interval between the sixth and first scale degrees when the sixth is transposed up an octave, creating a compound sixth, or thirteenth. The thirteenth (an octave plus a sixth) is most commonly major or minor .
A thirteenth chord is the stacking of six ( major or minor) thirds, the last being above the 11th of an eleventh chord. Thus a thirteenth chord is a tertian (built from thirds) chord containing the interval of a thirteenth, and is an extended chord if it includes the ninth and/or the eleventh. "The jazzy thirteenth is a very versatile chord and is used in many genres." Since 13th chords tend to become unclear or confused with other chords when inverted they are generally found in root position. For example, depending on voicing, a major triad with an added major sixth is usually called a sixth chord , because the sixth serves as a substitution for the major seventh, thus considered a chord tone in such context. However, Walter Piston, writing in 1952, considered that, "a true thirteenth chord, arrived at by superposition of thirds, is a rare phenomenon even in 20th-century music." This may be due to four part writing, instrument limitations, and voice leading and stylistic considerations. For example, "to make the chord more playable [on guitar], thirteenth chords often omit the fifth and the ninth."
Thirteenth is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in Italian Popular Tales. It is Aarne-Thompson type 328, the boy steals the giant's treasures.
Usage examples of "thirteenth".
Chapter 12 In which the thirteenth book is concluded The elegant Lord Shaftesbury somewhere objects to telling too much truth: by which it may be fairly inferred, that, in some cases, to lie is not only excusable, but commendable.
The rough hand-made papers so heartily despised by the copyists of the thirteenth century are now preferred by neat penmen and skilled draughtsmen.
With this view he passed the Maese on the thirteenth day of September, and advanced towards mareschal Saxe, whom he found so advantageously posted at Tongres, that he thought proper to march back to Maestricht.
Own were in column, after part of the Thirteenth had gone out in skirmishing order.
After entering the wheat field I saw the line of the Thirteenth Battalion to my left, below me, in skirmishing order, advancing towards the enemy.
I also wish to state that I saw the right wing of the Thirteenth extend and advance in skirmishing order, and that nothing could exceed the steadiness and regularity with which they advanced.
The greatest stupa is that of the thirteenth Dalai Lama, which is built several stories deep into the palace.
Question--About what proportion of the Thirteenth Regiment was wholly undrilled at the time of the affair at Lime Ridge?
The Judeo-Christian concept of imposed laws of nature, which burst into prominence in seventeenth-century scientific thought, can be traced to the latter part of the thirteenth century, when a new tradition of Christian theology arose, called the theory of voluntarist natural law.
For nearly 600 years, between the collapse of the Abbasid Empire in the thirteenth century and the waning years of the Ottoman era in the late nineteenth century, government authority was tenuous and tribal Iraq was, in effect, autonomous.
When it is said that the Abbasid Khalifate maintained itself from 750 till the Mongol storm in the middle of the thirteenth century, that only refers to external appearance.
The scouts came in to report that Belgica was boiling, so the legions were shuffled round again: the Seventh was sent to Caesar, the Thirteenth was shifted to the Bituriges under Titus Sextius, and Trebonius inherited the Fifth Alauda to replace the Seventh at Cenabum.
Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.
At which precise moment Trebonius marched up with the Fifth Alauda, the Fourteenth and the Thirteenth.
But on the fourth of the month Hideyoshi had made peace with the Mori, on the fifth he had departed, on the seventh he had arrived at Himeji, on the ninth he had turned toward Amagasaki, on the thirteenth he had struck down Mitsuhide in the battle at Yamazaki, and by the time Katsuie had reached the borders of Omi, he had already swept the capital clear of the remaining enemy troops.